Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charlie Hutter, who, by inhaling oxygen for several minutes before the start of a time-trial, turned in the phenomenal time of 22.8 for the 50. The world's record is 22.6. However, Ulen was quick to deprecate the importance of Hutter's feat in view of the fact that it is likely that almost the same results can be achieved by "forced breathing...
...Olympics it was a significant fact that swimming ranked next to track as the leading international sport. Of the four consistently outstanding college swimming teams in America, two Ohio State and Michigan, give swimming the status of a major sport. Yale gives it a partial major rating, but, Harvard, although its teams have often equalled any in the country in ability and achievement, does not recognize swimming as a major...
...fact that Harvard has the best pool in the East as well as one of the best teams adds extra weight to undergraduate desire for making swimming a major sport here. Such equipment will never be abandoned; it should be used to full advantage. It is fitting that Harvard take the lead in raising swimming to its just rank...
...fact that finance companies have no trouble in making collections, thinks Mr. Merriam, has nothing to do with the economic justification of installment selling. "Finance companies are liquid, and this is a source of satisfaction to themselves and to their banks,* but it can be little consolation to those who are dependent on a whole pyramid of industries...
...Hidden Lincoln is a big book, dense and badly edited, repetitious, with few explanatory notes. Although it makes fascinating reading for people who know Herndon's Lincoln, it is likely to be alternately boring and shocking to others: boring in its painstaking inquiry into trivial matters of fact; shocking because of its candor in discussing Lincoln's doubtful paternity, his relations with his wife, his scrapes with women before his marriage...